Data, Methods, and Applications of Ancient Book OCR

Data, Methods, and Applications of Ancient Book OCR

China has a glorious civilization spanning thousands of years. Throughout its history, many precious ancient books have been passed down. These ancient texts carry rich information regarding history, culture, politics, economics, and more, holding immense value. According to the “National Ancient Book Census Registration Basic Database” project initiated by the National Library in 2016, as … Read more

Introduction and Usage of TrOCR: Transformer-Based OCR

Introduction and Usage of TrOCR: Transformer-Based OCR

Author: Sovit Rath Translator: ronghuaiyang Introduction This article introduces the structure and usage of TrOCR, teaching step by step from each line of code. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has seen several innovations in recent years. Its impact on retail, healthcare, banking, and many other industries is tremendous. Despite its long history and some state-of-the-art models, … Read more

Understanding Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)

Understanding Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)

Click I Love Computer Vision to star and get the latest CVML technologies faster This article is reprinted from Machine Heart. Selected from Medium Author:Ajinkya Khalwadekar Translated by Machine Heart Contributors:Panda, Egg Sauce In the fields of machine learning and computer vision, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) have long been important … Read more

Application of Image Recognition Technology in Archive OCR Work

Application of Image Recognition Technology in Archive OCR Work

Originally published in “China Archives News” Author: Xu Liang Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that converts textual information in images into character information that can be processed by computers, functioning as the “eyes” of computers and serving as an important technological foundation for visual interaction between machines and the real world. The early … Read more

Super Simple Implementation of OCR Text Recognition Application

Super Simple Implementation of OCR Text Recognition Application

Click on the above “Visual Learning for Beginners” and choose to add “Star” or “Top” Important content delivered in real-time 1. Introduction Recently, I encountered a small problem where I needed to extract some text information printed on images. Since there were quite a few images—several with hundreds of characters each—manually typing them out seemed … Read more

CCIG 2023 Speech Transcript: Jin Lianwen on OCR for Ancient Texts

CCIG 2023 Speech Transcript: Jin Lianwen on OCR for Ancient Texts

China boasts a brilliant civilization with thousands of years of history, leaving behind a vast amount of ancient texts. These precious materials are important material carriers for the inheritance of our national culture, embodying rich historical legacies and possessing multiple cultural and social values. Over time, the already rare existing ancient texts have become increasingly … Read more

Free and Effective OCR Tools for Image to Text Conversion

Free and Effective OCR Tools for Image to Text Conversion

Recently, I received a small project that involved organizing the vector boundaries of rivers. The task is quite simple as the data is available; however, the key issue is that the provided data was collected around 2010 and is only available in hard copy, with no electronic version. The coordinates are organized in columns, covering … Read more

Fudan PhD Uses OCR and Regex to Verify Nucleic Acid Reports in 2 Minutes

Fudan PhD Uses OCR and Regex to Verify Nucleic Acid Reports in 2 Minutes

Source: Big Data Digest This article is about 2000 words long and is recommended for a 5-minute read. 800 images take only 2 minutes, and the program has been packaged. Recently, according to reports from Fudan University, Li Xiaokang, a PhD student from the School of Information Science and Engineering, used OCR and regular expressions … Read more

Practical Guide | OpenCV + OCR Circular Text Recognition

Practical Guide | OpenCV + OCR Circular Text Recognition

Click the "Xiaobai Learns Vision" above, select "Star" or "Top" Heavy content delivered first Introduction This article will introduce the detailed steps and code demonstration for implementing circular text recognition using OpenCV + OCR. (Source: WeChat Official Account: OpenCV and AI Deep Learning) Background Introduction In optical character recognition (OCR) scenarios, there are many special … Read more

Exploration and Product Evaluation of OCR Technology in Mobile Healthcare

Exploration and Product Evaluation of OCR Technology in Mobile Healthcare

[New Friends] To know more serialized articles, please follow the blue text below the title “Zhenli Pai”, and check the historical messages. [Old Friends] Click the top right corner “…”, to forward or share this article with your friends. Background (Introduction) With the rapid development of computer networks, the electronicization of information has become an … Read more